Author: Mike Vukovcan

For most of this season, the Pirates bottom half of their starting pitching rotation has been inconsistent.

Tyler Glasnow was replaced by Trevor Williams, who’s been a pleasant surprise and is locked in as the teams 4th starter. Williams hasn’t been spectacular but is performing the role of a typical 4th or 5th starter.

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The start of the Pirates 2017 season was defined by unfortunate off-field incidents, injuries and plain bad luck.

Fortunately for the Pirates, the season isn’t just two months long because here in the month of June, they’ve look liked a different team. Clint Hurdle’s team actually looks like a team that can contend in the NL Central.

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Tonight the Pirates open up an important 3-game series vs. the World Series Champion Chicago Cubs. Actually, these next two weeks of games are important because they’ll be against teams from the NL Central.

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The MLB Draft doesn’t seem to get the attention that the amateur drafts in the 3 other sports receive but they are just as important to each teams individual long term success.

MLB will begin it’s 2017 players draft tonight and it will be televised on the MLB Network.

Tonight, the Pirates will have four picks (12th, 42nd, 50th and 72nd) in the first night of the draft. Unlike the drafts in other sports, it will be years before these players will have a shot at the majors and before we can properly evaluate how each individual team drafted.

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With the struggles of the Pirates this season, there has been some chatter that both Neal Huntington and Clint Hurdle’s jobs could be in jeopardy. Both guys are in the last year of their contracts with the team.

However, a report last night suggests that both are safe and will be signing contract extensions before the end of the season.